Presidency of Ronald Reagan

1947–1991 tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies

On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated about 46,000 feet (14 km) above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 16:39:13 UTC. It was the first fatal accident involving an American spacecraft while in flight.

US transatlantic flight, bombed in 1988 over Scotland

The Iran hostage crisis began on November 4, 1979, when 66 Americans, including diplomats and other civilian personnel, were taken hostage at the Embassy of the United States in Tehran, with 52 of them being held until January 20, 1981. The incident occurred after the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line stormed and occupied the building in the months following the Iranian Revolution. With support from Ruhollah Khomeini, who had led the Iranian Revolution and would eventually establish the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, the hostage-takers demanded that the United States extradite Iranian king Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had been granted asylum by the Carter administration for cancer treatment. Notable among the assailants were Hossein Dehghan, Mohammad Ali Jafari, and Mohammad Bagheri. The hostage crisis contributed to a dramatic decline in Iran–United States relations. After 444 days, it came to an end with the signing of the Algiers Accords between the Iranian and American governments; Iran's king had died in Cairo, Egypt, on July 27, 1980.

series of anti-communist, anti-dissent campaigns in South America

arms control agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union

1988 film by John Carpenter

1983 conflict in Grenada involving US and Cuban led forces

thumb|thumbtime=16:09|Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office, outlining his plan for tax reductions in July 1981. Reaganomics (; a portmanteau of Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey), or Reaganism, were the neoliberal economic policies promoted by Ronald Reagan, president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. These policies focused mainly on supply-side economics. Opponents (including some Republicans) characterized them as "trickle-down economics" or Voodoo Economics, while Reagan and his advocates preferred to call it free-market economics.

50th quadrennial U.S. presidential election

49th quadrennial U.S. presidential election

collective term for US federal intelligence and security agencies

USA-led campaign against illegal drug use and trade

US April 1986 military operation in Libya

1981 shooting of US President Ronald Reagan and murder of then White House Press Secretary James Brady

speech delivered by President Ronald Reagan of the USA in West Berlin in June 1987

American strategy until the end of the Cold War

1984 mass shooting

40th presidential administration and cabinet of the USA (1981-1989)

American white supremacist terrorist group

NASA program from 1984 to 1990

principle in 1980s US foreign policy

financial crisis of Savings and Loan Association failures

phase of the Cold War between 1985–1991

aspect of history

meeting of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev

49th United States presidential inauguration

trade agreement superseded by NAFTA

80s-90s advertising campaign, part of the U.S. War on Drugs

thumb|right|U.S. representative Michael Myers (Pennsylvania politician)|Michael Myers, second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 that he just received from undercover FBI agents

50th United States presidential inauguration

American astrologer

1987 G7 summit in Venice, Italia

1988 Summit Between the USSR & USA

military incident between the United States and Iraq

1988 conference

Drug epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s

1983 G7 summit in Williamsburg, Virginia, US

U.S. support given to terrorist and paramilitary organizations

G7 summit in Tokyo, Japan in 1986

1982 G7 summit in Varsailles, France

period in the history of the United States, 1981–1991

1988 G7 summit in Toronto, Canada

1984 G7 summit in London, United Kingdom

1981 G7 summit in Ottawa, Canada

summit between USA and USSR leaders in 1987

phase of the Cold War between 1979–1985

1985 G7 summit in Bonn, West Germany

US federal tax legislation

Address to the United States Congress on January 26, 1982